Is there a widget on WordPress.com to hide pages?

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  laurasoracco · Member · Apr 27, 2016 at 10:15 pm

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  I want to write a blog post with links to pages with other people’s posts. These posts have not been published elsewhere, so I would need to create pages for them and link them within my post. How can I do this without the pages appearing on my blog?

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  dwnc · Member · Apr 27, 2016 at 11:11 pm

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  Hi laurasoracco,

  Could I ask a question or two to make sure I understand clearly?

  Will the other people’s posts eventually be in their own blogs or yours? If yours, then it seems you could draft the pages and not publish them (use Save Draft instead). That would create the locations (URLs) you need for your links, but not show the pages until they are Published. When the others are done editing the placeholder posts, they can Publish them and they will become visible on your blog.

  If the other posts will be on other blogs, then you are wanting to put links in your blog post that point to posts that don’t exist yet – they don’t have URLs. I think to do that, you can create draft pages in your blog for now, as you suggest, but will eventually have to go back in and change the links once the other posts exist and have their own URLs.

  In either case, if somebody clicks on one of your links before the post actually exists or is Published, they will probably see an ugly error message of some kind.

  Am I understanding your question? Does my response make sense?

  dw

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  laurasoracco · Member · Apr 28, 2016 at 1:09 am

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  Hi Dw,

  Thank you so much for your help!

  The other people’s posts will be on mine. They’ve sent me the text, and I’m creating a page for each of their posts because what I want to do is write 1 blog post with embedded links to their posts, which are still on my page.

  Does that make sense?

  Let me give you an example. I added a section called “40th Anniversary” on this website: http://www.waesol.org. There are individual interviews in it and each one is it’s own page, but those pages don’t appear on the menu anywhere. You can only get to them by clicking on the link.

  I basically want to have pages for those posts I’ll be adding, but I don’t want the pages to appear on my website’s menu.

  Is that an option on WordPress.com?

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  dwnc · Member · Apr 28, 2016 at 2:47 am

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  I see – that helps a lot. I think you are wanting to control which pages get included in the menus and which don’t.

  Here is what I would do (an expert might be able to tell us a better way, but this should work).

  Create the pages you want – yes, they will appear in the menu, but we will fix that in the next step.

  Go to the Menu section under the Appearance section in your WP Admin page. There you will see your site’s menu structure. Find the menu items for those pages you created and remove them.

  While you are on that page, check out the Help tab at the top for more information about managing menus.

  I understand that themes differ in how they support menu management – if you have trouble, it might have to do with your theme.

  I hope this helps! Let me know how it works out or if I can help further.

  dw